[f-nsp] Where have all the MLX/XMR users gone to?

[Aaron]

The SLX9640 is a 1U box with 24x 10G ports and 12x 100G ports (4 
licensed on the base config) with 4 million routes for less than a third 
of the price.

I'd love to try Arista but that's what I'm dealing with.

Aaron


On 3/12/2019 5:46 PM, George B wrote:
> Rack space is the premium with me. A 7280R2K-48C6 gives me 48x10G plus 
> 6x40/100G ports in 1U with 2 million routes vs 7U for an MLX-8.
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2019, 11:49 Aaron <aaron at wholesaleinternet.net 
> <mailto:aaron at wholesaleinternet.net>> wrote:
>
>     I just got quotes for an Arista 7280R (48x 10Gbit and 6x 100Gbit)
>     and an
>     SLX9640.  Adding a port license to the 9640 to go to 8x 100G ports
>     the
>     Arista quote for just the base box (no service, optics, etc.) was
>     251%
>     higher.
>
>     Maybe I have the wrong sales rep at Arista and the right one at
>     Extreme?
>
>     Aaron
>
>
>     On 3/12/2019 1:39 PM, Richard Laager wrote:
>     > On 3/12/19 1:19 PM, Aaron wrote:
>     >> We replaced our Extreme gear with Brocade several years ago. We're
>     >> getting ready to swap out some MLXes' with SLXs'. We've looked at
>     >> Arista hard but just can't seem to justify the 3x price premium.
>     > Unless Extreme has massively dropped the price or Arista has
>     massively
>     > increased their prices, there's no reason that equivalent Arista
>     gear
>     > should be 3x the price of an SLX, and that doesn't match up with my
>     > experience.
>     >
>     > I ended up with the Arista 7280SR (48-ports of 10G, 6 ports of
>     > short-range 100G in a 1RU fixed configuration) and it's been
>     working well.
>     >
>
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